Friday, 12 June 2009

UK TV Chart - w/e 31st May 2009

Here's the rundown of the Top 20 most popular UK TV programmes or series for the week ending Sunday 31st May 2009 collated from information compiled and presented by BARB. Note that figures for multi-episode TV broadcasts (ie soaps or other shows with more than one episode per week) are rounded up into an average figure for the series and are denoted in the chart by * News broadcasts are excluded from the figures.

Chart commentary: A real chart of shame this week as ITV1's quick-fix shock troop talent farrago blasts everything else out of the water, flattens the ratings of all oppositon, drags up some guff which would normally be struggling (All Star Mr and Mrs rating higher than EastEnders??? What sort of parallel world is this I find myself in?) and allows some filler called 'Soaps Uncut' to land a no 17 slot!!! British TV eh, aintcha proud?? But I daresay the champagne corks have stopped poppin' now at ITV Network Centre as the following week - next week's chart which, incidentally, won't be posted here until next weekend at the earliest as your Stuffmeister is off abroad on a jolly for a few days - sees a massive collapse for ITV; their hopes that their audience may have flocked back permanently after BGT dashed as people either turned off their TVs or went back to the marginally-better fare served up by the BBC. In fact, ITV's figures for next week are even more dismal than normal...not that I'm smug or gloating, oh no...